Turkish Curation Scam + Circle Jerk @baharoba and @yoonjang0707
I do not know where to start. Because the things I'm going to talk about are scam and circlejerk, which is hidden under the name "curation".
First of all I want to start introducing myself. I'm a Turkish Steemian that is lucky enough to find out about this platform with the help of my friend @heimindanger. After spending 2-3 months in the platform I can gladly say that I'm fully integrated to platform after 2 months of hard work and started to notice the sheninigans.
Yes , There are Fake Accounts in The Turkish Community and all of them got curated by @baharoba .We are constantly alerted to end this fake accounts , but What we did on the way to stop this fake accounts always remained unsolved. @baharoba 's reluctance to solve this matter only created more questions in my mind. Therefore I started to think there is something fishy going on. Are these accounts owned by Bahar? or She doesn't care about and curate them because she wants to trick people about the amount of Turkish people in the platform. Ok let me start to narrate the story from beginning.
First Turkish Accounts and Korean Donations
So basicly I wasn't around here. I didn't know the details much but when you check the first accounts that got Steem power for this project. Everything feels wrong about them. My first accusation is they created a fake turkish community with their own accounts ripped some support from our fellow Korean student friends. Also they never do any work to recruit new people to Steemit
First Fake Accounts to Form a Fake Turkish Community
1- @cassiopeia8688
5 comments in 3 months ınactive on powerdown. If you know Turkish you would understand that there are 0 personal information in any article just written articles from somewhere. Same linguistic pattern in every article.
2- @beyazpanda91
20 comments in 5 months still an active fake account on powerdown. All the articles are same in this one too similar to old ones. By same I mean when you know a language you can understand that it is crafted or written by someone else. Anyway I will get to that topic. This guy never misses any curation by the way. All of his articles in curation list.
3- @jjbobby34
5 comments in 5 months looks totally legit. Ah did I forgot to mention you it is on powerdown.
4-@mickeymicky
20 comments in 5 month on powerdown again same bullshit writings.
5- @sei010
Inactive for 5 months but still on powerdown, and only 2 comments.
6- @geko099
20 comments in 5 month on powerdown. Oh shocking! There is a story behind this account.
These are the first fake accounts in order to create a fake Turkish Community on Steemit.
Story Of @Monomyth and @Geko099
I was always doubted about fake accounts in Turkish Community , but this one got a good story behind it. Not long ago a Turkish steemian named @monomyth joined to our community when I was talking with him in Discord, I asked him “How did you find about Steemit?”. Story behind it is a shocking and mind fucking one.
So @monomyth was working in some website called https://www.uzmankirala.com/. This is a website for working with freelancers and someone was paying him 40 Turkish Liras for 10 articles. (40 Turkish liras = 11 $) When he copypasted one of his articles to Google he found about Steemit and joined the website and started writing on his own.
Some of his articles from his computer.
Apparently the user named @geko099 was sharing these articles. When he talked about this with @baharoba the account starts to powerdown after a week. This is the only intervention our curator did because she got no chance.
All the accounts I'm going to share today is using this method to get in to curation. Because if you would understand Turkish language you can see the similarities behind it. Our curator is either stupid or scammer. Because some real accounts not even get this much curation everyday. Because of this our community is shrinking everyday. Her greedy nature prevents this community to grow. Turkey is a 80 Million population country and a poor one. I'm pretty sure you can swarm Steemit if you just post somewhere you can earn 2$ from your posts. Of course she decided to work in shadows and wanted to earn more from these accounts. If they really wanted to create a decent Turkish community with support. At least some of the real accounts should have get some Steem or support.
WALLET MOVEMENTS @yoonjang0707 and @baharoba
Well I wasn't actually sure what is her relationship with @yoonjang0707 . Apparently @baharoba is @yoonjang0707's fiancee but I have no idea what is his situation about this fake account problem so I will just pass @yoonjang0707, but he is the probably one who found all these korean support and shady whale accounts upvoting us and her fakes. I don't want to be part of this anymore.
3560995; 2016-07-27T14:00:03; TRANSFER;
36.537 SBD; baharoba;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
3877588; 2016-08-07T15:26:09; TRANSFER;
93.372 SBD; baharoba;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
7609921; 2016-12-15T14:53:21; TRANSFER;
75.417 SBD; yoonjang0707;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
7724585; 2016-12-19T14:41:06; TRANSFER;
11.442 SBD; yoonjang0707;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
7724606; 2016-12-19T14:42:09; TRANSFER;
22.706 SBD; baharoba;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
9612735; 2017-02-23T06:35:27; TRANSFER;
120.000 SBD; yoonjang0707;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
10567410; 2017-03-28T11:07:24; TRANSFER;
133.757 SBD; yoonjang0707;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
10965378; 2017-04-11T07:16:30; TRANSFER;
63.063 SBD; yoonjang0707;poloniex; 38f76e7c4393b6f8
704200; 2016-08-01T14:10:21; TRANSFER;
577.157 SBD; baharoba;bittrex; 6a30c5cd936042f4869
4616101; 2016-09-02T10:38:48; TRANSFER;
209.299 SBD; baharoba;bittrex; 6a30c5cd936042f4869
5127579; 2016-09-20T06:39:36; TRANSFER;
50.951 SBD; yoonjang0707;bittrex; 6a30c5cd936042f4869
6314859; 2016-10-31T13:27:33; TRANSFER;
30.813 SBD; yoonjang0707;bittrex; 6a30c5cd936042f4869
Some same bittrex memos. Well I leave you the interpretation. This is not a proof it can happen.
2nd Wave of Fake Accounts.
I'm not going to show pictures about these but you can see that all of those accounts that I'm going to list below got similar situation with the previous ones all of them on powerdown. Again same articles bought from other professionals for 1 dolar.
When we mention about this to @baharoba. Her answer was "How can I say them that you are fake?" Well, apparently she is just playing the dumb here, according to my observation. Because everyone with a decent IQ could understand the difference between fake and active user. These accounts never miss curation that is the interesting part. No pictures about themself not a single one. Okay you may say it is a decentralized cryptoblog you may say that privacy is important. I completely agree you but you can't even contact to these guys. No steemit.chat no Discord nothing at all.
Here is the List :
@redzone, @mrcksn, @serinsular, @demirbilek, @akbergu, @selviboylum, @istanblue, @mehedr0713
Okay these are the 2nd wave of fake accounts. You may notice something last 2 articles didn't get curation. Do you know why? because I talked with @donkeypong and explained the situation. Thanks to him for taking me seriously he isn’t supporting @baharoba therefore she might be a little spooked because her last article about how we lost another support and someone in our community talked with @donkeypong. Therefore all of these accounts didn't got their last curation.
@baharoba's account and @tr-support
She claims that she is reading every article and inspecting it. You can just check her comments she got almost 0 commets to other users article and her interaction with Turkish Community is slim to none. Also she opened another account named @tr-support she said that she will use the money in there for community. Now she got 2 growing accounts and a huge Wallet
Let me be honest with you. I don't care about others money and the money they earned from their post, but if you want to build some a huge active community with Turkish Users you need to give back some to the community. Our last discord meeting was about buying a delegation because our shady korean supports are powerdowning. They will probably do a dump with HF20 @lifewordmission, @kb720k. She wanted money between 1-5 SBD from every user for to keep her curation scam. Apparently she is going to pay 100 SBD every week but when you consider her revenue from this posts this is just a slim number.
We want to Rebuild an Honest Active Turkish Community
Let me be honest with you again, our number of current real writer is approximately 25. I assume some of these are @baharoba's friend. There are some people really dedicated to work for Turkish Community but only support is in @baharoba's hand and she is a corrupted tyrant.
We want to rebuild our curation system and recruit tons of people to Turkish Community. But we can only do this with a new curator! Someone who fair,active and really wants to grow the community. And that isn’t @baharoba. We need new curator and a honest team to work together. We want to destroy fake account scam and build a honest, active , real community. If @baharoba really wants to support the community, she can do by working with the new team that is going to be formed up. We will see if she rather going to run away or continue working for community without her fake accounts. This community need to grow fast, and I know some of us can do that. Some users have great ideas for Steemit and Turkish Community. These must be happen. So, enough @baharoba. No more scam! We are not stupid, and we don't want your tyranny...
The Korean community had to deal with yoonjang and his affiliates' dealings a few months back, which you can see in @abdullar's translation of @atomrigs' original post. We suspected some major foul play when he jumped ship and claimed he was focusing on the Turkish community with baharoba after being ousted for circlejerk activities with affiliate/fake kr accounts.
Thank you for such a thorough report and your communal efforts @steeminator3000.
Well with your feedback I'm 100 percent sure that this is a huge circlejerk I hope this posts get visibility and all the people can see. We really want to rebuild an honest community.
You've got full support from me and many KR members.
Thanks a lot I wish yoonjang and bahar repplies to this post after this issue ended we will createa a new curation team. We can't support this scam. Hope many people sees this post.
It should be noted here that yoonjang was one of the Steem Guild-supported Korean accounts. That was apparently the original circle-jerk, which would explain why donkeypong was able to step in on this Turkish nonsense...they were both part of the Steem Guild BS.
This is what happens when you "curate" based on country tags or other irrelevant factors. Just upvote the stuff that you like. It's really not that hard. If some of that content happens to be from a Turkish user, then great!
We'll probably see the same things happening with Italian curation, Indonesian curation, and any other voting agendas that look at factors not related to content.
I agree with you @ats-david Supporting a user only based on nationality is wrong and even a bit racist. I have already said this in the Italian group.
They are just the content they have to count ....
This is true but it is also true that Korean community has purified and made a healthier community now. There were many trials and errors but we always attempt to find answers.
Well I agree you in most parts. Nation shouldn't be a thing in 2017 but expressing yourself in your own language is a really important key factor.
As far as I can see, the Italian community is healthy. We have an Italian Telegram group moderated by reputable Steemians such as @bhuz and @thenightflier and, as far as I know, most posts with the #ita tag originate from our community.
Yes, I'm familiar with the community. My point was - how long until sock/spam accounts are created in order to take advantage of the curation occurring under the country tags? We have seen this play out repeatedly. If someone can exploit the process, it will be exploited. We should find better solutions for content curation instead of doing the same thing over and over again, then pretend that we're shocked when others are able to easily exploit it.
Well, I suppose there's no substitute for human attention and supervision. ..which is the beauty of curating!
I don't understand why we need this curation shit. Let's just vote on what we like and that's it.
Well in ideal world that should be it but in growing poor communities like Turkey , Nigeria or Endonesia in order to grow and form a community and p rovide people oppurtunity to express themself in their own language is priceless. Therefore these new formed communities needs support.
Hi! I have flagged bahabora with full power and shaved off 30% of her recent gains. Please let me know how I can help otherwise.
Nothing man , thanks for supporting our cause she didn't reply to us yet so we are waiting aswell. When we the community chooses a new curator you can always help them I'm just a messenger and I will spend all my post rewards to get some delegation and help the real Turkish content creators
Ok. let me know!
sigh Thanks for the heads up, I've pulled my delegation to @baharoba and will try and find a new TR curator in a week once my SP returns.
Our community will decide who will be the new curator I will let you knwo thanks for your support !
Looking forward to supporting some better Turkish curators soon. :)
We will decide between our community there are really decent people who want to create a Turkish community with hundreds of People. I will send you some decents names who will gladly work with you.
Damn! These users already looked like fake. Now it's clear why they entered the curation list.
How these accounts aren't realized until now?!!!
Who knows my friend who knows you are turkish too :D
I think it was realized but they were afraid to share. This is a war they will lose if they cann't find enough support. That's why most people were silent. Until now...
People in Turkey just wanted to take their free curation therefore they remained silence and they don't want to cut themself out from curation because of baharoba
Unfortunately this is true, but nobody knew it so deep.
Thanks a lot for this hard work.
Thanks for head up!!
Wow ! This is so unbelievable .I am so happy that this wasnt sweeped under the Carpet . And thank you for making this argument very clear and well analysed . I think bahar has some explaining to do . Even though I'm not super active I hope this will be a turning point for Turkish community
Hopefully man hopefully !
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@bukharisulaiman
i agree .....perfect post thank you...congratulations @steeminator3000
Well he was contantly buying time for herself and saying you we should discuss about projects. There is no discussion anymore we will just make it.